# Deployment error: Dependencies to SNAPSHOT versions not allowed

## Post by Stef_van_Schie on Oct 9, 2025

Hey,

I recently tried to create a new deployment for my project on Maven Central, but the deployment has failed. The reason given is that one component validation has failed, with the following note:

```yaml
pkg:maven/com.github.stefvanschie.inventoryframework/IF@0.11.4:
- Dependencies to SNAPSHOT versions not allowed for dependency: org.spigotmc:spigot-api
```

The error seems to point to the following dependency declaration in my pom.xml:

```xml
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.spigotmc</groupId>
  <artifactId>spigot-api</artifactId>
  <version>1.20.3-R0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <scope>provided</scope>
  <exclusions>
    <exclusion>
      <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
      <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
    </exclusion>
  </exclusions>
</dependency>
```

I do not understand what the issue is here. I also made a deployment for the same project two months ago, which also included this dependency (same `groupId`, `artifactId`, `version`, `scope`, and `exclusions`), but this deployment passed without any issues. Any help regarding this would be much appreciated.

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## Post by jzora on Oct 9, 2025

Hi, Stef,

Please reach out central-support@sonatype.com directly and they’ll help you troubleshoot.

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## Post by Yakir_Magriso on Oct 12, 2025

This is a Maven validation error (i.e. not related to Nexus).

Nevertheless, basically, when deploying a release version (i.e a version without the “-SNAPSHOT” suffix) to a remote repository, Maven does not allow building with dependencies having “-SNAPSHOT” suffix.

Make sure you are using a release version for ALL dependencies in such a scenario.

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## Post by Stef_van_Schie on Oct 14, 2025

Thank you both for the reply. I have also reached out to central support directly. As for the inability to deploy releases with snapshot dependencies, was this a recent change? I was able to publish a release with the same dependency, with the same snapshot version, two months ago. I looked around if there was any information on such a change, but I came up blank. Secondly, is it possible for me to change this restriction? Unfortunately, the dependency I am using only provides snapshots and not releases, so I cannot switch the dependency version to anything else.

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## Post by Stef_van_Schie on Oct 15, 2025

I received a reply to my e-mail that confirms this was indeed a recent change in their validation, so that is useful to know. Thank you both for your swift replies in helping me with this issue.